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This article was originally written for a paranormal magazine called The Paranormal Journal, it became known as The Underground Files covering ghosts, ufos, cryptozoology, and government conspiracies amongst others. I no longer write for the magazine and it is no longer in existence. First Tongue Transplant The first ever tongue transplant, the recipient recovering Tuesday, 22 July 2003 took place in Vienna, Austria. The man is so far not showing any signs of rejection (he hasn’t spit it out yet), his doctors said. The patient, a 42 year old man who suffered from a malignant tumour on his tongue and jaw, underwent a 14 hour operation Saturday in which doctors amputated his tongue and ‘stitched’ the new one on. “The tongue now looks as if it were his own – it’s as red and colourful and getting good blood circulation,” said Dr. Rolf Ewers, the head of the nine physicians who performed the operation in Vienna’s General Hospital. “The tongue is just slightly swollen,” Ewers added. “That’s also a good sign which means that probably no transplant rejection has begun.” But he still could face the risk and in any event will be taking tablets for the rest of his life to ward off rejection. The team will consider the operation a success if the patient, who could no longer open his mouth because of the tumour, regains his ability to eat and speak. Surgeons had worked meticulously to attach the nerves of the tongue to the severed nerve endings. “It’s very unlikely he’ll regain his sense of taste,” Ewers said. “But (regaining) feeling and primarily, movement, would be an optimal result.” Normally, in cases were patients lose their tongues, surgeons remove a small piece of their small intestine (lovely) and graft it on to the tongue stump, the doctors said. Such patients, however, are never able to speak clearly or swallow again, and must be fed through tubes. The recipient’s ‘new’ tongue in this case was first removed from a brain-dead donor by a separate team of doctors in an adjacent operation room and quickly handed over the transplantation, said Dr Franz Watzinger, one of the leading surgeons. The donor, chosen because of his tongue size match and his blood type was taken off life support. Ewers said they’d been waiting for two years to carryout the operation from lack of a suitable donor and a candidate to make it work. “And now finally after long training we were able to carry it out,” Dr. Christian Kermer said. He said there is no medical history in the medical literature to suggest there had been a prior operation of this nature, therefore, this was a first… What happens if it’s a woman’s tongue? Never mind, the surgeons seem to have it licked! First Tongue Transplant written by Bill Barber |
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